Sam Sifton offers an early look at Eataly: "It's groceries. To be fair, though: those groceries are pretty good. ... Il Pesce is worth visiting. ... There is a pasta area ... in which silken, expertly prepared [Mario] Batali-style pastas are served, as well as Neapolitan pies [that] are not yet worth the time spent. ... Manzo is a feng shui nightmare. You might go once." [NY Times]

Steve Cuozzo is so no fan of Hurricane Club, with its weak cocktails and Vegas-style atmosphere. Witness the headline: "Hurricane blows." [NY Post]

Ryan Sutton slams Del Posto, just weeks after a four-star Times review: "[R]arely have my dining companions and I looked at each other so often in awkward silence and wondered, 'Haven't we had a better, cheaper version of this elsewhere?'" [Bloomberg]